Estimate marginal-conditional probabilities

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Employees of a local university have been classified according to gender and job type. The following table provides data about the employees.

Job Male (M) Female (F)

Faculty (FA)

110

80

Salaried Staff (SS)

30

50

Hourly Staff (HS)

60

40

If an employee is selected at random, what is the probability that the employee is male given that the employee is an hourly member of staff? Select the best answer from the following:

60
60/200 = 0.300
60/370 = 0.162
60/100 = 0.600

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